China warned Japan on Tuesday against â€œplaying upâ€ tension after Tokyo reportedly approved a plan to intercept and shoot down any foreign drones if they ignore warnings to leave Japanese airspace.

Chinaâ€™s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the remarks in response to a report by Japanâ€™s Kyodo news agency on Sunday, which cited a â€œsource close to the government,â€ that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approved the plan.

If confirmed, the move would signal Tokyoâ€™s readiness to unilaterally respond to an increasingly acrimonious territorial dispute with Beijing over a set of islands, known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan. Last month, a Chinese military drone was reportedly spotted near Okinawa.

â€œDue to historical reasons, Japanâ€™s political moves in the military and security fields have always received high attention from its Asian neighbors and the international community,â€ Hua said during a regular press briefing.

â€œFor some time, Japan has been deliberately playing up the so-called external threat and ratcheting up tension and confrontation between regional countries and using that as an excuse for constant military build-up,â€ the spokeswoman said.

Hua said, â€œ(China) cannot but be on high alert to Japanâ€™s real intent.â€

â€œI want to reiterate that the Diaoyu Islands are an integral part of Chinaâ€™s territory,â€ Hua said, adding, â€œ(China) will resolutely respond to any external provocation.â€

Relations between South Korea and Japan have also remained frosty due to Japanâ€™s repeated claims to South Koreaâ€™s easternmost islets of Dokdo and its unrepentant attitude toward its wartime crimes.

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It has become a habit for china to warn it's neighbours for each and everything !

This is strange. Wouldn't deliberately trespassing into a sovereign nation's airspace be an act of war? Anything that Japan does to follow it would merely be a response to defend itself. The article clearly states that Japn plans to shoot only those drones that violate it's airspace.

This is strange. Wouldn't deliberately trespassing into a sovereign nation's airspace be an act of war? Anything that Japan does to follow it would merely be a response to defend itself. The article clearly states that Japn plans to shoot only those drones that violate it's airspace.

Like Global Times, which reported that India "still lags behind in infrastructure construction, but its society is highly supportive of developing nuclear power and the West chooses to overlook India's disregard of nuclear and missile control treaties" and warned India not to "over-estimate its strength". Subsequently, they also claimed that although India may have missiles that can reach all parts of China, India stands "no chance in an overall arms race" with the country.

Like Global Times, which reported that India "still lags behind in infrastructure construction, but its society is highly supportive of developing nuclear power and the West chooses to overlook India's disregard of nuclear and missile control treaties" and warned India not to "over-estimate its strength". Subsequently, they also claimed that although India may have missiles that can reach all parts of China, India stands "no chance in an overall arms race" with the country.

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Well, where did it show someone is "shaking and trembling with fear and have broken into cold sweat"?